Budget & Finance

​The City of Salem budget reflects the City Council goals and citywide result areas. Budget planning enables the City to provide excellent customer service, foster efficient and cost-effective government, maintain the City’s healthy and stable financial position, and deliver high-quality services to meet the needs of the community. Financial transparency means providing access to financial reports and processes in a timely and reliable way.

While the City of Salem, overall for the $600 million enterprise, is in good fiscal health, the City faces some challenges. For the City’s General Fund, the Fiscal Year 2020 proposed budget begins on July 1, 2019 a necessary alignment of revenues and expenditures.